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Madness under the Royal Palms : Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach by Laurence Leamer (2009, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101401322913

ISBN-139781401322915

eBay Product ID (ePID)69580259

Product Key Features

Book TitleMadness under the Royal Palms : Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRich & Famous, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 21st Century, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2009

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorLaurence Leamer

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal306

SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-a-Lago. For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has been an exclusive and exotic universe of wealth and privilege in America. And until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated its eternally sunny world, the reality of this affluent enclave has rarely been exposed to outsiders. Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms , resident insider Laurence Leamer reveals the secrets and scandals of this South Florida island via a cast of characters that includes social climbers, trophy wives, sugar daddies, glamorous widows and their "escorts," sociopathic multimillionaires, and elegant society queens. Dive into the unbelievable true story of love, lust, money, and murder in a uniquely American paradise., Just the name--Palm Beach--conjures up an American fantasy of wealth, privilege and exclusivity. Laurence Leamer, in his well-written and entertaining new book, Madness Under the Royal Palms, offers up an inside look at this playground of the rich, and its under-class of social-climbing wannabes. Tracing the history of Palm Beach and its magnificent real estate, describing the fabulous parties, investigating some of the city's sordid secrets, Leamer's book provides a memorable, and at times haunting, portrayal of high society at a moment of transition, where things are often not what they seem.